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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.

Thomas Carlyle

Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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Greatness Oneself Trouble
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Action Kind Talk Togetherness
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Desire Development Man Power Stop
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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Fall Notice Silence Tree
Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
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Born Dance Life Music Willing World Yourself
In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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Beginning Deep Moments
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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Book Collection Deep Greatness Knowledge Reading Teacher
To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
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Celebration Conscience Defeat Sin Song Success Victory
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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Honesty Man World Yourself
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Blessing Himself Work
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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Book Collection Deep Greatness Knowledge Reading Teacher
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Action Alone End Kind
Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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Moments Stop Yourself
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
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Death Evil Fools Imagination Judgement Life Man
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Activity Direction Terrible Work
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Eyes Object Weakness

Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.

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